1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. N. Colmcille, Buncrana

School: N. Colmcille, Buncrana (roll number 16752)

Location:
Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pilib Mac Riada
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 366

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 366

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: N. Colmcille, Buncrana
  2. XML Page 366
  3. XML “The Food in Olden Times”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Food in Olden Times (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    a piece of oaten bread in their pocket when they would be going a lonely place or going through a hill for fear the hunger grass would come upon them. The hunger grass was a hunger that would come on a person on certain parts of places and he would die with hunger. No matter how much a person would eat before he left the house if the hunger grass would come on him it would be no use to him except he had a bit of bread with him. In olden times the people only got tea at Christmas and at Halloweve and this was thought a great threat. Tea was first used in this district about seventy years ago.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Anton Mac Donnchadha
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Willie Gill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 70